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Howard Foundation Names Twelve 2005-06 Fellows
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has announced recipients of 12 fellowships for the 2005-06 academic year. The 12 were awarded in literary criticism, film criticism and translation in English. Next year’s fellowships will be awarded in anthropology, sociology and political science. Brown University administers the fellowships on behalf of the Howard Foundation.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. —The George A. and Eliza Gardner
Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University for the Board of
Administration of the Howard Foundation, has announced 12 fellowships of $20,000
each for the 2005-2006 academic year. The twelve recipients, representing the
fields of literary criticism, film criticism and translation in English, were
selected from among160 scholars and independent writers nominated by
administrative officers of colleges, universities and cultural institutions
throughout the country.
The 2005-2006 fellows and their projects are:
- Karen Coats, associate professor, Illinois State University, literary
criticism
Project: Learning to Laugh: Humor in Children’s Literature
- Jeffrey Coleman, associate professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland,
literary criticism
Project: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement: A Critical
Evaluation
- Andrew Elfenbein, professor, University of Minnesota, literary criticism
Project: Romantic English: Literature and the Response to Linguistic
Standardization
- Forrest Gander, professor, Brown University, translation
Project: A Translation of La Noche by poet Jaime Saenz
- Kenneth Haynes, assistant professor, Brown University, translation
studies
Project: Romanticism is Translation: Language Mysticism and the
Untranslatable
- Hilaire Kallendorf, assistant professor, Texas A & M, literary
criticism
Project: Sins of the Fathers/Sins of the Players: The Moral Economy of Baroque
Spain
- Adam Lowenstein, assistant professor, University of Pittsburgh, film
criticism
Project: Scanning Cinematic Spectatorship: Films and Viewers Meeting
Halfway
- Nicoletta Pireddu, associate professor, Georgetown University, literary
criticism
Project: The Fiction of Europe, Europe in Fiction
- John Plotz, associate professor, Brandeis University, literary criticism
Project: Portable Properties, Local Logic: Culture on the Move and in Place in
Victorian Greater Britain
- Paul Saint-Amour, associate professor, Pomona College, literary
criticism
Project: Archive, Bomb, Camera: Modernism in the Shadow of Total War
- Russell Scott Valentino, associate professor, University of Iowa,
translation
Project: Predrag Matvejevic’s The Other Venice: a Translation
- Elizabeth Young, associate professor, Mount Holyoke College, literary
criticism
Project: American Frankenstein: Race, Sex and the Politics of Monstrosity
The Board of Administration announced that fellowships in
2006-2007 will be awarded in the fields of anthropology, sociology and political
science. Additional information is available online at
www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/howard.
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